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Filed under: Adoption, Celeb Kids, Celeb Parents
The good folks at TMZ.com (and probably dozens of other sites) are reporting that Angelina Jolie is hanging up her drama masks in order to stay at home with her brood.
We wouldn't be a site about babies and parenting if we didn't throw our own two cents in, now would we?
In an interview with Ho Chi Minh City newspaper Phap Luat last week, Angelina talked about her regret at bringing so much media attention to newly adopted son, Pax Thien. Then she dropped the SAHM, according to the BBC, saying "she would stay at home to help the boy, who speaks no English, settle into his new life."
As I may have mentioned before, friends of ours are leaving for foreign soil any day now to bring home their adopted son. Everyone is offering suggestions like, "You should sign him up for swimming." Our ignorance of the orphanage system is clear in these comments. As my girlfriend pointed out, "We're going to spend some time at home, adjusting. After all, he's never been in a house before."
Duh. How come I didn't realize that? And just like any new addition to your family, an adoption also requires the equivalent of a "babymoon." It's strange that anyone would scrutinize Angelina for this, most obvious of motherly decisions.
But as usual, what seems like a sacrifice is not always so in celebrity-land. Though Brangelina are always seen holding their own kids, it's hard to imagine that there are not nannies, housecleaners and cooks in the background. The photo ops are great, but there's no way she's all done up like that with four kids and no help. Right? Oh please, let that be true.
We wouldn't be a site about babies and parenting if we didn't throw our own two cents in, now would we?
In an interview with Ho Chi Minh City newspaper Phap Luat last week, Angelina talked about her regret at bringing so much media attention to newly adopted son, Pax Thien. Then she dropped the SAHM, according to the BBC, saying "she would stay at home to help the boy, who speaks no English, settle into his new life."
As I may have mentioned before, friends of ours are leaving for foreign soil any day now to bring home their adopted son. Everyone is offering suggestions like, "You should sign him up for swimming." Our ignorance of the orphanage system is clear in these comments. As my girlfriend pointed out, "We're going to spend some time at home, adjusting. After all, he's never been in a house before."
Duh. How come I didn't realize that? And just like any new addition to your family, an adoption also requires the equivalent of a "babymoon." It's strange that anyone would scrutinize Angelina for this, most obvious of motherly decisions.
But as usual, what seems like a sacrifice is not always so in celebrity-land. Though Brangelina are always seen holding their own kids, it's hard to imagine that there are not nannies, housecleaners and cooks in the background. The photo ops are great, but there's no way she's all done up like that with four kids and no help. Right? Oh please, let that be true.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
3-18-2007 @ 11:36AM
daisy said...Nadine, you're right that parents who adopt (especially older kids) tend to stick to home for a bit. It's often called "cocooning." The idea is that the new child not to be exposed to much more than mom, dad, and siblings, to adjust to being in his or her new family. Friends and family may be discouraged from visiting and bringing presents, for example. It sounds cruel (though it's not), but the child has to learn who mom and dad are.
I don't know about housecleaners and nannies, though. I could use one or two! I do wonder, though, if any household help may be helping out more with chores and the other kids, but not Pax, so he can adjust to Brad and Ange as mom and dad.
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3-18-2007 @ 5:49PM
Amy said...I agree that there has got to be plenty of help. I'm so surprised that they are living in New Orleans.
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3-20-2007 @ 4:36PM
hedgerow said...Well Angelina and her brood is welcome at our Chinese School events(even though her kids aren't Chinese, our group is open to all Asian kids and their siblings)
And if she has a housekeeper and a cook, good for her. Like my grandma always said, "Never trust a skinny cook."
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